Floating Elements for Layout
David M W Powers · Apress eBooks · 2012
As I explained in the preceding chapter, CSS treats HTML elements as boxes. Block-level elements force whatever follows them down the page, even if there’s sufficient room alongside. Inline elements sit alongside their neighbors, but if one element is taller than the rest, it affects the line height. For example, images are treated as inline elements. Inserting one in a block of text forces the text to align with the bottom of the image, as shown in Figure 7-1.